She stood about a dozen paces from me, a tail, slender girl with dark eyes and close-cropped brown hair. She wore a fencing jacket and held a rapier in her right hand, a mask in her left. She was looking at me and laughing. Her teeth were white, even and a trifle long; a band of freckles crossed her small nose and the upper portions of her well-tanned cheeks. There was that air of vitality about her which is attractive in ways different from mere comeliness. Especially, perhaps, when viewed from the vantage of many years. She saluted me with her blade. “En garde, Corwin!” she said.
Guns of Avalon

Wife to Prince Gramble of House Sawall, mother of Merlin by Prince Corwin, Dara is not known for low stakes games. She is energetic and aggressive, some people mistake her as being naive due to her relatively young age, but few make the mistake twice.